Relational Database Job Trends in Berkshire

Relational Database
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 94 107
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +10
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 43 44 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 2.27% 1.99% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.23% 10.48% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 13
10th Percentile - £40,158 £34,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £41,263 £48,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £52,500 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% -4.72% -8.17%
75th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £66,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £41,000 £55,000 £58,250
% change year-on-year -25.45% -5.58% +1.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 383 420 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.21% 19.00% 24.97%
Number of salaries quoted 109 187 267
10th Percentile £37,150 £42,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,368 £67,500 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +13.92% -8.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £112,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,918 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.15% -0.15% -

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Berkshire

Relational Database
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +28 31 £57,500 +5.50% 4
Hungerford - 10 £34,500 -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Windsor - 1 £47,000 -
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.63%) JBoss
1 5 (11.63%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 28 (65.12%) Amazon ECS
2 28 (65.12%) Amazon EKS
2 28 (65.12%) Serverless
3 21 (48.84%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (23.26%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (65.12%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (48.84%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.33%) Metadata
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (65.12%) Jenkins
2 26 (60.47%) JUnit
3 21 (48.84%) JMeter
3 21 (48.84%) Mockito
4 7 (16.28%) Git
5 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.98%) Postman
5 3 (6.98%) Selenium
5 3 (6.98%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (60.47%) Public Sector
2 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Retail
4 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (62.79%) Developer
1 27 (62.79%) Java Developer
2 16 (37.21%) Full-Stack Developer
2 16 (37.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 14 (32.56%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 5 (11.63%) Support Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Support Team Leader
4 5 (11.63%) Team Leader
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Leader
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Support
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Support Team Leader
4 5 (11.63%) Technical Team Leader
5 3 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (65.12%) REST
1 28 (65.12%) Spring
1 28 (65.12%) Spring Boot
1 28 (65.12%) Web Services
2 26 (60.47%) Apache Camel
3 21 (48.84%) ActiveMQ
3 21 (48.84%) Hibernate
3 21 (48.84%) HTML
3 21 (48.84%) jQuery
3 21 (48.84%) WireMock
4 18 (41.86%) JSON
4 18 (41.86%) XML
5 8 (18.60%) SOAP
6 5 (11.63%) J2EE
6 5 (11.63%) RESTful
7 3 (6.98%) Mustache
7 3 (6.98%) pytest
8 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (4.65%) Kafka
8 2 (4.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (65.12%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (23.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) Agile
1 28 (65.12%) Microservices
1 28 (65.12%) TDD
2 26 (60.47%) BDD
3 23 (53.49%) CI/CD
4 21 (48.84%) Process Management
4 21 (48.84%) Workflow
5 17 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (34.88%) SDLC
7 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (23.26%) Client Onboarding
8 10 (23.26%) Scrum
9 8 (18.60%) Kanban
10 5 (11.63%) Case Management
10 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
10 5 (11.63%) DevOps
10 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
12 3 (6.98%) Architectural Design
12 3 (6.98%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) Java
2 25 (58.14%) Python
3 23 (53.49%) JavaScript
4 21 (48.84%) Shell Script
5 14 (32.56%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) Go
6 3 (6.98%) PHP
7 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (51.16%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
4 1 (2.33%) MCSE
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.33%) OCP
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) SLA
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (65.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (65.12%) Kubernetes
2 21 (48.84%) Kibana
3 5 (11.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Dynatrace
1 21 (48.84%) Splunk
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle